On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:26 PM AV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some questions. Imagine the following scenario: I want to keep track > of payments of a couple of room rentals. Each year the guest is different, > therefore I create new accounts each year. So far I had a different file per > year, but I think it would be easier to have one file with org-mode sections > per year. > > Here is an example of the accounts: > *** Accounts opening > 2018-09-01 open Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrA EUR > 2018-09-01 open Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrB EUR > > *** 2018-10 > 2018-10-09 * "Mr. X: 30" > Assets:E:A:Banking:U:S > 30 EUR > Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrA -30 EUR > > 2018-10-16 * "Mr. Y: 30" > Assets:E:A:Banking:U:S > 30 EUR > Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrB -30 EUR > > Then, the period ends and I need to close the account > > 2019-09-01 close Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrA > 2019-09-01 close Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrB > > Now a new period starts and I open a new account > > 2018-09-01 open Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrC EUR > 2018-09-01 open Income:E:A:Banking:U:S:A:MrD EUR > > And the whole thing repeats... > > First question: Would those definitions be correct and make sense?
Yes (except the dates on your last two, but I think you clearly meant those to be 2019) > > Second question: I guess I cannot (or should not) close MrA and MrB accounts > if they are not zero in balance, See https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/beancount/plugins/check_closing.py > however I would like to keep track of what I earned in the > Assets:E:A:Banking:U:S banking account. I would like MrA and MrB accounts to > disappear when I use bean-report, but I would like to keep track of the > money. I thought of creating a 2018 account an balance against that account > but I am unsure if this is the correct procedure. What would be the correct > way of doing this? Your asset (and other) accounts' balances will be unaffected by a closing directive. All the closing directive is used for is: - to indicate to reports that they don't have to include this account if the reporting period starts after the account is closed - to detect errors, e.g. issue a warning if you're attempting to post an amount to a closed account > > Third question: I use spacemacs and I would like to use emacs with beancount > to have autocomplete and format correctly the transactions. The more the > automation and less manual typing, the better. What would be the good way to > go? https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/editors/emacs/ Here's my config https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/etc/emacsrc > > Fourth question: Is it possible to embed beancount chunks within org-mode > files (with org-babel)? What would be the way to go, beancount files alone or > org-mode files with beancount chunks? I guess I cannot use bean-report and > the other tools with org-mode files with beancount chunks, right? We used to use org-mode as a container with a minor mode for Beancount. However, this has changed, and beancount-mode is now a major-mode, and uses outline mode as a minor mode for folding. (I don't know anything about chunks, I just use the folding features anyway.) > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/68dc6bbc-6e00-41b9-9286-49123c869662%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNN42ZHM6gma5%2BzoU86k7hhigLj%3D9rpQdQ6JeZd46%3D6mw%40mail.gmail.com.
